A rapist has been jailed for 11 years after he held a sharp piece of wood to a teenager’s throat as he attacked her. Ahmed Abdoule, 33, who is Somalian, told her she couldn’t be a virgin ‘because you are white’, adding ‘my country would love you’ following the attack.

His victim ‘cried and pleaded’ with him to let her go throughout the attack, Hull Crown Court was told. She knew Abdoule before the attack in which he took her home and locked the door despite her protests to let her go.

The court heard he ‘jabbed a sharp piece of wood into her stomach’ as he forced her upstairs, and then held the weapon against her throat as he raped her. He also pulled her top over her head so he did not have to look at her while he raped her.

After he had raped her, Abdoule told his victim he had “liked it,” and that she was “not the only girl who was going to get punished”

When he dropped the teenager off a distance away from his home, Abdoule gave her a new top to wear, and told her “to cherish it". He also told her he would kill her if she told anyone what had happened.

Abdoule denied rape, but was found guilty after a trial and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

In a victim statement, the teenager said she still did not feel safe in her own home. She said: “I don’t seem able to talk to boys or men anymore, as I feel uneasy doing so. Mum lets me go a bit further from the house than last summer, but I always let her know where I am...mum used to nag me, telling me stuff could happen to me. I never listened. She was right.”

The victim’s mum also wrote a statement. In it, she said she felt she had “failed her as a mum.” “I feel guilty about what happened. It is my job to protect my daughter, and although I did the best I could I have failed her in the end..."

The fault is the rapists. Defying Mum and staying out late is unwise but does not merit rape as the 'punishment'. 11 years imprisonment is still not long enough and again, as in Rotherham, does not take into account the racial contempt felt by these men for the host white community.